About number and composition population of ODESA REGION by All-Ukrainian population census’ 2001 data

The language structure of region, according to the All-Ukrainian Population Census data, is characterized by the following data:

The part of those whose mother tongue was( %)

the language of their nationality

Ukrainian

Russian

other language

Ukrainians

71.6

х

28.2

0.2

Russians

97.0

2.7

х

0.3

Bulgarians

77.8

2.1

19.6

0.5

Moldavians

73.3

7.7

18.3

0.7

Gagausians

77.8

1.7

18.4

2.1

Jews

3.6

4.4

91.6

0.4

Belarussians

20.1

8.5

70.8

0.6

Armenians

50.4

3.8

45.0

0.8

Gypsies

53.8

14.4

20.4

11.4

Poles

6.2

29.1

63.9

0.8

Germans

10.1

16.2

73.0

0.7

Georgians

38.2

4.1

56.0

1.7

Azerbaijanians

53.4

3.9

40.9

1.8

Tatars

24.2

4.6

69.5

1.7

Greeks

18.6

5.5

74.2

1.7

Albanians

79.7

1.2

16.1

3.0

Arabs

61.9

8.5

23.1

6.5

Uzbeks

23.7

13.3

59.0

4.0

Turkmens

9.9

10.0

28.6

51.5

Koreans

21.0

4.5

72.8

1.7

Romanians

42.0

16.4

29.7

11.9

Chuvashs

20.0

3.0

75.9

1.1

Czechs

51.9

20.5

27.0

0.6

Lithunians

24.8

6.0

67.5

1.7

Kazakhs

16.4

9.8

69.7

4.1

Abkhazians

6.1

39.0

45.6

9.3

Ossetins

20.0

4.7

72.1

3.2

Mordvinians

19.8

6.9

72.5

0.8

Chinese

89.5

0.8

8.7

1.0

Latvians

16.9

10.9

68.4

3.8

Tajiks

40.8

7.4

43.8

8.0

Vietnamese

94.5

0.3

4.9

0.3

Chechens

57.1

3.7

34.0

5.2

Lezghins

37.0

8.7

50.6

3.7

The part of those whose mother tongue is Ukrainian totals 46.3% of the population of Odesa region. The percentage of those whose mother tongue is Russian totals 41.9% of the population, comparatively with the data of previous census this index has decreased by 5.2 percentage points. The part of other languages, specified like mother tongue, during the period that have passed since previous census has increased by 0.1 percentage points and accounted for 11.8%.